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Just wait until someone names a whizbang plugin "nerdsboggler-jimcrickey.vim" out of sheer spite!

Nowadays I do load a few plugins myself on the machines where I do a lot of coding or writing, but the only one that's useful every single day without fail is Tim Pope's Surround [1]. It's so useful so often that I've often thought Bram should simply ask to make it part of Vim's core to supplement the very cool idea of text objects [2]. Even if you're a crotchety old raw-Vim man, I really would say that you've got to try this out.

There are other very good plugins out there. Fugitive [3], also by Tim Pope, comes to mind if you do a lot of Git work and care about crafting really nice commits.

[1]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround

[2]: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/motion.html

[3]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive